Mr. Fonberg, I sense a certain amount of frustration on your part, and I wanted to give you the opportunity to go ahead and express yourself on behalf of the department and everyone else. The issue is not so much whether you did things that were incorrect or illegal; it's that the starting point was the lowest-cost-compliant for what we were going to buy, and it turned out to be the best-value package as we went down the road. I think that's what the report of the Auditor General said. So I can appreciate your frustration.
You can appreciate the frustration of members of Parliament who get a call from a constituent who says, “Look, if you want to buy five bushels of apples, you don't go and get a seedling, plant it, and wait five years for the tree to tell you you're getting Macintosh instead of Golden Delicious.” That's how the public is seeing this. I think we all want to make sure we do the right thing.
So how is it that we get into a situation where our military says we're doing quite well without this Canadianized version in a theatre of war, but we have to wait for a Canadianized version for domestic purposes? I want to give you an opportunity to address that. All those who are watching want to know so they can understand whether their money is being used judiciously.